Suppose they did a remake. As over forty years have passed since the original film, what would you like to see modernized and what left the same?
shareclothes modernized lol and new actors ^_^
but they'd have to bring terry back for some small role.
Oh and the cars.
After I got to Sin City, all the color came back.
I would like to see the victim being a bit more agressive, and a bit more resourcefull, as well as more drawn out mental breakdown parts of the movie. But rathar than a remake, they could do a sequel which takes place immediately after this one with the nurse at the end. They should still have it take place in the present though, if they do that.
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How would you prefer a remake?
- that it didn't happen.
(no more remakes, Americans).
exactly. why does one need a remake anyway? watch the story that you already know and enjoy get ruined? no, thanks.
shareWell, if any of you foreigners could get it right the first time, America wouldn't have to step in and correct you! Hahaha 😜
shareEh, I wouldn't care.
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She could be more aggressive at the beginning, but then do I also miss the "Stockholm syndrome" that actually make a captured more and more fond of the person who abducted her... That should also lead to more erotic situations... And the "relation" should get a slight S/M spin, that should come natural with the situation...
All that even if it not follow the book exactly...
But a remake can simply follow the basic set up, but happen in modern time and the girl can then be a more "sensual" or "provoking" babe... Or little younger and very innocent at the beginning, but growing more and more interested in the games he play with her...
Yes, it feels especially strange and almost irritating dumb, that he not take a lot more advantage of the situation!
Although I'd rather they not remake it I think that speculation can be fun. If they kept the 1960's setting that would be fine although stylistically I think they'd need to make it less "mod". Or they could update it. Really the only thing that time period effects is the clothing and the cars. Everything is in a sinlge location with two main characters.
I think Miranda was fairly resourceful in the original though. She tries to feign illness, to get a letter sent to her mother, to seduce her captor, to rush out past him when he comes to see her... What more could she have done? She's an art student, not a vampire slayer or a spy, or a kick-boxing champion! It was actually one of the few movies I can remember watching and not being totally frustrated by the sheer idiocy of the victim!
Regarding Stockholm syndrome I think it was done fairly well in the original. It's more involved in the novel (isn't it always) but I like that the film left certain things ambiguous. Is Miranda trying to seduce Clegg only to get away from him or is she genuinely attracted to him? To what extent does she feel sympathy and where are the lines between that and affection? Or is she just trying to get her captor on her side so he lets her go? I think clarifying some of these things would be a mistake. It would make the film look like a textbook entry on Stockholm syndrome rather than a look at the dynamic between two characters.
Though I'm not big on remakes, I could completely see Amy Adams in the role of Miranda and the young Terence Stamp had a look of Daniel Craig, though I think it's essential to get some-one who would be the same age as the captive (as in this film).
shareWhy a remake? Terrance Stamp is still alive... dun dun dun
shareTerence Stamp reminds me of a blue-eyed Jim Parsons in this film. Like his Sheldon character, Jim Parsons can pull off the emotionless, and even calculating, character from this film.
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